Re: [libreoffice-users] Struggling with Hebrew in LO

I apologize for not having seen this thread sooner. Here is a document
which explains why you see what you do, and how to work with it rather
than against it. The concepts are really quite simple, but not
intuitive:
http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html

You are invited to contact me at any time with questions.

Some examples of proper mixed Hebrew and English:

Hello, יהונתן, how are you?‎
‫שלום, Jonathan, מה שלומך?

English at the beginning, עברית בסוף.‎
‫עברית בהתחלה, English at the end.

Because plain-text email does not even have a concept of alignment,
the alignment of the Hebrew sentences depends on your renderer (email
client or web browser). Most likely, they will all be left-aligned.
Note however that alignment and directionality are different concepts.
In all cases, the punctuation should be at the proper end of the
sentence. In order to have Hebrew texts right-aligned in email, I
would have to have sent an HTML email. In LibreOffice you shouldn't
have such an issue. LibreOffice, unlike email, has a concept of
alignment.




On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Jonathan Allen
<jonathan@barumtrading.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I'm struggling with using mixed English and Hebrew text in LO.  This is
> a fully up-to-date LO 5.1.4.2 in a new installation of Linux Mint.
>
> When I type English text, the letters come out in the right order, but the
> punctuation goes at the beginning of the line, until the next letter is typed
> which is strange but sort-of-OK in mid-sentence but no good at end of the
> paragraph.
>
> Attempting to combine Hebrew and English text in the same sentence, as it
> were to say 'shalom' in flight, assembles the language blocks the wrong
> way round.  Using Alt-Ctrl-8 and Alt-Ctrl-9 doesn't seem to fix this and
> the Shift-Ctrl-D and Alt-Shift combinations are also dysfunctional.  The
> font-name (selected as SBL Hebrew) switches once characters are typed to
> DejaVu Sans.
>
> This is probably all very familiar to someone (if not all), so anyone
> help me to get this working correctly, please?
>
> Jonathan
>
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